J.R.R. Tolkien

Short cuts make long delays.

Linus Torvalds

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Fred Brooks

Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowchart; it’ll be obvious.

Edsger Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”.

Christer Ericson

Design patterns are spoonfeed material for brainless programmers incapable of independent thought, who will be resolved to producing code as mediocre as the design patterns they use to create it.

Terry Davis

An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.

Alan Kay

Unfortunately, inheritance—though an incredibly powerful technique—has turned out to be very difficult for novices (and even professionals) to deal with.

John Carmack

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

Stewart Lynch

It is a slow library (STL) it is overcomplex, it tries to be too generic to be good for everyone, but its not that really good for anyone.